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For the Acceptance of Prayer

Heavenly Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Absolution
Sickness & Healing

Absolution

Reconciliation of Penitents

Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given power to his Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive you all your offenses; and by his authority committed to me, I absolve you from all your sins: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Reconciliation Of PenitentsMinistry to the Sick & Dying

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This is the priest's private absolution, spoken at a sickbed or deathbed after a person makes special confession. Thomas Cranmer wrote it for the very first English Prayer Book in 1549, and Anglicans have prayed it almost unchanged for nearly 500 years. The version in this app comes from the 2019 ACNA Prayer Book.